Irene Jacob (“Three Colours: Red”), a critically acclaimed film and theater actor, is set to preside over the Lumière Institute in Lyon, succeeding to Bertrand Tavernier, the revered French filmmaker who died in March.
Tavernier led the institution for nearly four decades and worked closely with Thierry Fremaux, the Lumière Institute’s managing director, and Cannes Film Festival’s general delegate, to host the annual Lumière festival, a star-studded celebration of heritage films and cinema masters. Lyon is actually the birthplace of the Cinematograph and its creators, the Lumiere brothers.
Kicking off on Oct. 9, the event’s 13th edition will pay homage to Tavernier with a special tribute on Oct. 10.
Jacob, who is originally from Switzerland, is the granddaughter of Maurice Jacob, a scientist and humanist who lived in Lyon all his life and has a street named after him in the city. A passionate film buff, Jacob has been...
Tavernier led the institution for nearly four decades and worked closely with Thierry Fremaux, the Lumière Institute’s managing director, and Cannes Film Festival’s general delegate, to host the annual Lumière festival, a star-studded celebration of heritage films and cinema masters. Lyon is actually the birthplace of the Cinematograph and its creators, the Lumiere brothers.
Kicking off on Oct. 9, the event’s 13th edition will pay homage to Tavernier with a special tribute on Oct. 10.
Jacob, who is originally from Switzerland, is the granddaughter of Maurice Jacob, a scientist and humanist who lived in Lyon all his life and has a street named after him in the city. A passionate film buff, Jacob has been...
- 10/2/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Agnes Varda is deservedly eulogized in newspapers and on social media all over America today, but critics, programmers and audiences in the U.S. took time in recognizing her accomplishments. It took several decades for her work gain appreciation in the U.S., and during that time, I witnessed Varda’s ability to continue evolving as an artist every step of the way.
While Varda’s debut feature, “La Pointe Courte” (1955) has yet to have a theatrical release in America, her early short, “L’Opera Mouffe” (1958), was distributed by Cinema 16, an important film club run by Amos and Marcia Vogel in the 50’s and early 60’s dedicated to the showing and release of experimental and avant-garde cinema. The film won some notoriety because of its casual nudity — then still rare on American screens — and it was booked in film societies around the country seeding the bed for later Varda appreciation.
While Varda’s debut feature, “La Pointe Courte” (1955) has yet to have a theatrical release in America, her early short, “L’Opera Mouffe” (1958), was distributed by Cinema 16, an important film club run by Amos and Marcia Vogel in the 50’s and early 60’s dedicated to the showing and release of experimental and avant-garde cinema. The film won some notoriety because of its casual nudity — then still rare on American screens — and it was booked in film societies around the country seeding the bed for later Varda appreciation.
- 3/31/2019
- by Laurence Kardish
- Indiewire
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has set the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed The Favourite as the Opening Night selection for the 56th New York Film Festival. Deadline revealed last week that the film will make its world premiere at Venice, so this will be its New York premiere. That indicates it likely gets a showing at Telluride before the Nyff gala at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 28, 2018. Fox Searchlight Pictures releases it November 23. This becomes the second pic announced by Nyff, which recently set Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma to be the centerpiece selection. That film also will have its world premiere in Venice.
In The Favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Said...
In The Favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Said...
- 7/23/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Event drops “British” from its title.
The northern French beach resort of Dinard has rebranded its annual celebration of British cinema to the Dinard Film Festival, dropping “British” from its title, the organisers have announced.
They stressed, however, that this did not signal a move away from the event’s historic focus on British cinema.
The 29th edition, which is due to unfold Sept 26-30, will continue to pay tribute to British cinema through its well-established mix of public and professional events, previews of upcoming titles and retrospective screenings.
“The festival will remain devoted to British cinema,” said a spokesperson for the event.
The northern French beach resort of Dinard has rebranded its annual celebration of British cinema to the Dinard Film Festival, dropping “British” from its title, the organisers have announced.
They stressed, however, that this did not signal a move away from the event’s historic focus on British cinema.
The 29th edition, which is due to unfold Sept 26-30, will continue to pay tribute to British cinema through its well-established mix of public and professional events, previews of upcoming titles and retrospective screenings.
“The festival will remain devoted to British cinema,” said a spokesperson for the event.
- 6/4/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th as the Opening Night selection of the 54th New York Film Festival (September 30 – October 16), making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall. The 13th is the first-ever nonfiction work to open the festival, and will debut on Netflix and open in a limited theatrical run on October 7.
Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African-American. The title of DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution—“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States . . . ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass incarceration and...
Chronicling the history of racial inequality in the United States, The 13th examines how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with the majority of those imprisoned being African-American. The title of DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution—“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States . . . ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass incarceration and...
- 7/19/2016
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
If the languid summer tentpole season has you down, fear not, as the promising fall slate is around the corner and today brings the first news of what we’ll see at the 2016 New York Film Festival. For the first time ever, a non-fiction film will open The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s festival: Ava DuVernay‘s The 13th. Her timely follow-up to Selma chronicles the history of racial inequality in the United States and will arrive on Netflix and in limited theaters shortly after its premiere at Nyff, on October 7.
“It is a true honor for me and my collaborators to premiere The 13th as the opening night selection of the New York Film Festival,” Ava DuVernay says. “This film was made as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard...
“It is a true honor for me and my collaborators to premiere The 13th as the opening night selection of the New York Film Festival,” Ava DuVernay says. “This film was made as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard...
- 7/19/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Director courts controversy in France amid tax credit stand-off.
Luc Besson is threatening to shoot his ambitious sci-fi picture Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets in Hungary rather than France if regulations governing French film credits are not tweaked to accommodate the production.
The ambitious $180m production is not eligible for a 20% tax credit for French films, due to the fact it will be in English and star a mainly non-French cast, and does not qualify for the Tax Rebate for International Production (Trip) either because it is a local production.
“I’m in a legal hole,” Besson said in an interview on a culture programme on French radio station Rtl this week.
“I’ve contacted the authorities because I’d really like to shoot the film in France. There is a tiny little problem: the tax credits.
“In France, they’re set at 20% for French films and 30% for foreigners but I am a French...
Luc Besson is threatening to shoot his ambitious sci-fi picture Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets in Hungary rather than France if regulations governing French film credits are not tweaked to accommodate the production.
The ambitious $180m production is not eligible for a 20% tax credit for French films, due to the fact it will be in English and star a mainly non-French cast, and does not qualify for the Tax Rebate for International Production (Trip) either because it is a local production.
“I’m in a legal hole,” Besson said in an interview on a culture programme on French radio station Rtl this week.
“I’ve contacted the authorities because I’d really like to shoot the film in France. There is a tiny little problem: the tax credits.
“In France, they’re set at 20% for French films and 30% for foreigners but I am a French...
- 8/27/2015
- ScreenDaily
In terms of support, they got a taste for what the Sundance Institute had to offer in concretizing aspects of their respective screenplays and in terms of scenery, they’ll need to pack significantly less heavier suitcases. Nia DaCosta (Little Woods), Olivia Newman (First Match), Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (pictured above) (Mustang) & Yung Chang (Eggplant), Christopher Makoto Yogi (I Was A Simple Man), Mark Kindred (Rogue) and trio Brent Green, Michael McGinley and Thyra Heder‘s untitled project are technically moving onto the next round working on the directing portion of their projects at the June Directors and Screenwriters Labs. they’ll be joined by The Imposter helmer Bart Layton‘s narrative debut, American Animals. The Screenwriters Lab attendees are Dan Krauss‘ docu-to-feature adaptation of The Kill Team, Boots Riley‘s Sorry to Bother You, Frances Bodomo, Mariam Bakacho Khatchvani and Irakli Solomanashvili‘s Afronauts, and finally Fernando Coimbra‘s The...
- 5/7/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
- 1/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
- 1/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
Eliza Hittman (was love at first sight for her directorial debut It Felt Like Love) and Yung Chang (a docu-helmer best known for the award-winning portrait of modern China in Up the Yangtze) are just two of the dozen folks/projects invited to the upcoming Sundance Institute 2015 January Screenwriters Lab. The labs work as a testing ground of sorts, with Lab Director Ilyse McKimmie seeing to it that the screenwriters are mentored by filmmaking professionals. I’d wager that a good portion of these projects on paper eventually make it onto the big screen (say about 65 to 70 percent) and about 35-40 percent break into the actual Sundance Film Fest. Not unlike her debut picture, Hittman’s potential sophomore pic Beach Rats features NYC borough backdrop and via a teenage vantage point but is sure to stir the pot with tad bit more destruction. After Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight, and The Fruit Hunters,...
- 12/16/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Pauline at the Beach: Fitoussi’s Breezy Caper Good for a Laugh
Director Marc Fitoussi seems inclined toward breezy-haired, bauble headed gamines that get jostled around like seaweed in unpredictable waters. While his 2010 film Copacabana was a notable comedy starring Isabelle Huppert as the comic foil (rather than the ‘straight man’ for once), his latest reunites him with Sandrine Kiberlain, who starred in his 2007 debut, La Vie D’Artist. It’s quite easy to see why he’s attracted such talents as he seems to have a knack for an offbeat drollery with actresses that seem unconventional leads in a comedic vehicle. Inconsequential? Perhaps. But there’s an undeniable delight in watching his funny ladies as they cross in and out of slight frippery. While his features are hard to get a hold of in the Us, possibly because of their very slightness, his latest, like his others, is certainly...
Director Marc Fitoussi seems inclined toward breezy-haired, bauble headed gamines that get jostled around like seaweed in unpredictable waters. While his 2010 film Copacabana was a notable comedy starring Isabelle Huppert as the comic foil (rather than the ‘straight man’ for once), his latest reunites him with Sandrine Kiberlain, who starred in his 2007 debut, La Vie D’Artist. It’s quite easy to see why he’s attracted such talents as he seems to have a knack for an offbeat drollery with actresses that seem unconventional leads in a comedic vehicle. Inconsequential? Perhaps. But there’s an undeniable delight in watching his funny ladies as they cross in and out of slight frippery. While his features are hard to get a hold of in the Us, possibly because of their very slightness, his latest, like his others, is certainly...
- 1/8/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
★★☆☆☆ Arriving on DVD after a brief run in the capital at the end of last year, Partners in Crime (2012) is the third film in a succession of Agatha Christie adaptations from French director Pascal Thomas. The first in the series to receive a UK release, this is another audacious outing for Bélisaire and Prudence Beresford played by André Dussollier and Catherine Frot. The film is a pleasant comedy caper that loses its way a little towards the climax but remains watchable thanks to the charming leads. The series is based on Christie's short stories about Tommy and Tuppence (now Bélisaire and Prudence) - adventurous spirits that have clearly been in their fair share of scrapes.
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- 1/8/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The festival has famously neglected the talents of female directors, but this year four are vying for the top prize, including Lynne Ramsay, whose dazzling interpretation of Lionel Shriver's novel We Need to Talk About Kevin is tipped for glory
Oone of the 15 golden rules of Cannes president Gilles Jacob, as set out in his new memoir Citizen Cannes, is: Never forget that a beautiful woman's face is the reason cinema exists.
A reflection of cinema itself, the festival has always been in the thrall of beautiful women: Faye Dunaway adorns this year's striking festival poster, slinked as she is in a mid-length black dress around the digits 64, while Marilyn Monroe in a sparkly playsuit is poster girl for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
However adoring of on-screen beauty, Cannes has notoriously neglected female talent behind the camera, the Australian Jane Campion being the only Palme d'Or winner, for The Piano,...
Oone of the 15 golden rules of Cannes president Gilles Jacob, as set out in his new memoir Citizen Cannes, is: Never forget that a beautiful woman's face is the reason cinema exists.
A reflection of cinema itself, the festival has always been in the thrall of beautiful women: Faye Dunaway adorns this year's striking festival poster, slinked as she is in a mid-length black dress around the digits 64, while Marilyn Monroe in a sparkly playsuit is poster girl for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
However adoring of on-screen beauty, Cannes has notoriously neglected female talent behind the camera, the Australian Jane Campion being the only Palme d'Or winner, for The Piano,...
- 5/14/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
For the fifth year running, we tally up the Other Year's Best -- the films that made it to DVD (or onto U.S. home video in any format) but not to theatrical, which generally meant they posed too much of a marketing challenge. As in, the films were either too odd, too original, too archival, too subtle, too something. DVDs still stand as our go-to B-movie-distribution stream of choice, although as I've barked every year, video debuts are still not eligible for any year-end toasts or trophies. Except ours.
10. "Parking" (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan) At first blush a Taiwanese riff on "After Hours," this measured little odyssey is more realistic, evoking those all-night odysseys we've all had, when time evaporates and tiny logistical dilemmas drive us insane and eventually it's morning and something about our lives is different. Chung doesn't spring for laughs when you think he will -- he holds back,...
10. "Parking" (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan) At first blush a Taiwanese riff on "After Hours," this measured little odyssey is more realistic, evoking those all-night odysseys we've all had, when time evaporates and tiny logistical dilemmas drive us insane and eventually it's morning and something about our lives is different. Chung doesn't spring for laughs when you think he will -- he holds back,...
- 12/9/2010
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
TV5MONDE has an array of films for the Francophile in you this Novembre. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The Very Big Apartment (aka Le Grand Appartement ) 1:30Pm Et / 4:30Pm Pt Variety says, .Iconoclastic vet Pascal Thomas champions bohemianism over commerce in the fluffy, uneven venture.. Nominated for Cesar Award for Best Writing, Pascal Thomas. communal comedy is a tale of an extended family of care-free relatives and free loaders who are protected by a legal loophole that allows them to remain in their 3,000 square-foot rent-controlled apartment, despite one bitter landlord.s mission to evict them. When Charlotte Falingard (Noemie Lvovsky) attempts to evict the occupants which includes Francesca (Laetitia Casta ), film critic hubby Martin (three-time Cesar...
- 11/3/2009
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The winners at the recently held World Film Festival in Montreal have been announced, with France's "Korkoro (Freedom)" by Tony Gatlif winning the Grand prix des Americas.
Also declared winners are Japan's "Villon's Wife," which won Best Director for Kichitaro Negishi, and China's "Weaving Girl" by Wang Quan'an, which took home the Special Grand Prix of the jury.
Jury for the awards were represented by its president, Jafar Panahi (Iran), and members Eiji Okuda (Japan), Diane Demers (Canada), David Lahaye (Canada), Fernando Mendez-Leiti Serrano (Spain), Pascal Thomas (France), and Reinhard Wagner (France).
The World Film Festival was held from August 27 to September 7.
Also declared winners are Japan's "Villon's Wife," which won Best Director for Kichitaro Negishi, and China's "Weaving Girl" by Wang Quan'an, which took home the Special Grand Prix of the jury.
Jury for the awards were represented by its president, Jafar Panahi (Iran), and members Eiji Okuda (Japan), Diane Demers (Canada), David Lahaye (Canada), Fernando Mendez-Leiti Serrano (Spain), Pascal Thomas (France), and Reinhard Wagner (France).
The World Film Festival was held from August 27 to September 7.
- 9/9/2009
- icelebz.com
Chicago – The third week of the 12th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center is nearly upon us and we’re back to give you an idea of what to expect in the second half of arguably the best fest in the Windy City. We feature great new films from Ireland, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Belgium.
The first half of EU 2009 (which you can read about here and here) produced some excellent films including Ireland’s “Kisses,” Denmark’s “Worlds Apart,” and France’s “Shall We Kiss?” There’s nothing that we’ve seen that’s quite as notable as “Kisses” or “Worlds Apart,” the two best of the fest through week three, but there is a quartet of films well worth seeing this weekend. Get your calendar out and take notes.
You’re going to be busy on Saturday with a dark trio of quality films - Denmarks “Fear Me Not,...
The first half of EU 2009 (which you can read about here and here) produced some excellent films including Ireland’s “Kisses,” Denmark’s “Worlds Apart,” and France’s “Shall We Kiss?” There’s nothing that we’ve seen that’s quite as notable as “Kisses” or “Worlds Apart,” the two best of the fest through week three, but there is a quartet of films well worth seeing this weekend. Get your calendar out and take notes.
You’re going to be busy on Saturday with a dark trio of quality films - Denmarks “Fear Me Not,...
- 3/18/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Thanks to openings in seven territories during the weekend led by Japan and the U.K., DreamWorks/Paramount's thriller "Eagle Eye" ensnared an estimated $12 million from 3,779 screens in 49 markets, finishing No. 1 on the international circuit for the first time.
Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox's video game-inspired "Max Payne," the No. 1 film domestically, was fifth on the weekend overseas with $6.4 million from 1,305 screens in 32 mostly small markets. The action vehicle starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis premiered in first place in at least six of those markets and debuted at No. 3 in Spain with $1.3 million from 302 sites.
At No. 2 overall was "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers' espionage satire, which opened in five new territories (three handled by Universal). Overall, its weekend take was an estimated $8.7 million, hoisting its overseas cume to about $30 million. Universal reports that the U.K. opening ($3.3 million from 396 sites) was the biggest boxoffice bow of any Coens title in the market.
Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox's video game-inspired "Max Payne," the No. 1 film domestically, was fifth on the weekend overseas with $6.4 million from 1,305 screens in 32 mostly small markets. The action vehicle starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis premiered in first place in at least six of those markets and debuted at No. 3 in Spain with $1.3 million from 302 sites.
At No. 2 overall was "Burn After Reading," the Coen brothers' espionage satire, which opened in five new territories (three handled by Universal). Overall, its weekend take was an estimated $8.7 million, hoisting its overseas cume to about $30 million. Universal reports that the U.K. opening ($3.3 million from 396 sites) was the biggest boxoffice bow of any Coens title in the market.
- 10/19/2008
- by By Frank Segers
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- David Mackenzie's Hallam Foe took the top prize at the 18th Dinard Festival of British Cinema, which wrapped Sunday in the Brittany resort town.
A jury led by French actress Josiane Balasko and including actresses Linh Dan Pham, Sylvie Testud and Cecile Cassel bestowed the Hitchcock d'Or Grand Prize upon Mackenzie's coming-of-age comedy, which stars Jamie Bell as a 17 year-old misfit mourning his mother's sudden death who spies on the world from his treehouse.
The jury gave an honorable mention to John Carney's musical comedy Once, which took the audience award this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Foe" also went home with the Hitchcock Blanc, Kodak Limited prize for best photo direction.
Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane won the Grand Marnier Lapostolle award for best screenplay and the Hitchcock d'Argent audience award.
Lenny Abrahamson's Garage was awarded the Hitchcock de Bronze prize, which provides distribution to the winner in 40 movie theaters in the west of France.
The British Council gave it's 1,500 ($2,123) "Entente Cordiale" award for the best short film made by a graduate of French film school to Marcal Fores' Friends Forever.
The four-day festival kicked off Thursday with Ken Loach's It's a Free World and closed Sunday with Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'heure zero.
A jury led by French actress Josiane Balasko and including actresses Linh Dan Pham, Sylvie Testud and Cecile Cassel bestowed the Hitchcock d'Or Grand Prize upon Mackenzie's coming-of-age comedy, which stars Jamie Bell as a 17 year-old misfit mourning his mother's sudden death who spies on the world from his treehouse.
The jury gave an honorable mention to John Carney's musical comedy Once, which took the audience award this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Foe" also went home with the Hitchcock Blanc, Kodak Limited prize for best photo direction.
Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane won the Grand Marnier Lapostolle award for best screenplay and the Hitchcock d'Argent audience award.
Lenny Abrahamson's Garage was awarded the Hitchcock de Bronze prize, which provides distribution to the winner in 40 movie theaters in the west of France.
The British Council gave it's 1,500 ($2,123) "Entente Cordiale" award for the best short film made by a graduate of French film school to Marcal Fores' Friends Forever.
The four-day festival kicked off Thursday with Ken Loach's It's a Free World and closed Sunday with Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'heure zero.
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- The 18th Dinard Festival of British Film, which unspools in the Brittany resort Oct. 4-7, will open with Ken Loach's It's a Free World, organizers said Wednesday.
The four-day event will see six U.K. movies vie for the fest's top prize. Competition titles this year include David McEnzie's Hallam Foe, Julian Jarrold's Jane, Asif Kapadia's Far North, Mark Jenkin's The Midnight Drive, Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane and John Carney's Once.
Gallic actress and director Josiane Balasko will lead a jury composed of fellow French female thesps Cecile Cassel, Linh Dan Pham, Claire Nebout and Sylvie Testud, actor Robin Renucci, comedian Laurent Gerra, British actress Imelda Staunton and documentary filmmaker Michael Grigsby.
Loach's Free World will open the fest and Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'Heure Zero will close it.
Dinard-bound cinephiles will also be treated to 20 French premieres including such titles as Anthony Byrne's How About You, Kevin Macdonald's documentary Mon Meilleur Ennemi and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage. The public will vote on a short film prize awarded by the British Council.
Shane Meadows and his producer Marc Herbert will be in the spotlight with films This is England, Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass, Twenty 4 Seven" and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands."...
The four-day event will see six U.K. movies vie for the fest's top prize. Competition titles this year include David McEnzie's Hallam Foe, Julian Jarrold's Jane, Asif Kapadia's Far North, Mark Jenkin's The Midnight Drive, Sarah Gavron's Brick Lane and John Carney's Once.
Gallic actress and director Josiane Balasko will lead a jury composed of fellow French female thesps Cecile Cassel, Linh Dan Pham, Claire Nebout and Sylvie Testud, actor Robin Renucci, comedian Laurent Gerra, British actress Imelda Staunton and documentary filmmaker Michael Grigsby.
Loach's Free World will open the fest and Pascal Thomas' Gallic title L'Heure Zero will close it.
Dinard-bound cinephiles will also be treated to 20 French premieres including such titles as Anthony Byrne's How About You, Kevin Macdonald's documentary Mon Meilleur Ennemi and Lenny Abrahamson's Garage. The public will vote on a short film prize awarded by the British Council.
Shane Meadows and his producer Marc Herbert will be in the spotlight with films This is England, Dead Man's Shoes, A Room for Romeo Brass, Twenty 4 Seven" and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands."...
PARIS -- Some 200 French filmmakers publicly called on distributors Wednesday to limit the number of prints they put into the market each week, amid fears that independent cinema is suffering. "We cineastes ask that in future no single movie can monopolize more than 10% of screens," the members of a group calling itself Agency for Independent Cinema and its Diffusion said in a statement published Wednesday in newspaper Le Monde. The signatories include directors Jean-Jacques Beineix, Chantal Akerman, Cedric Klapisch, Bertrand Tavernier, Pascal Thomas and Leos Carax. The directors note that the number of screens in France has risen during the past decade by more than 25% to about 5,300. "This ought to be good news for cinema. Well, it isn't!" they write. "The space for and the length of exposure for independent films is today increasingly reduced and threatened."...
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